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Afternoon conditions & temperatures at Kilkenny from Mon Nov 19th:

Mon.

Tue.

Wed.

Thu.

Fri.

Sat.

Sun.

Next Wk.

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7°

7°

8°

9°

10°

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9°

A cool week this week with a little showery rain at times - but rain amounts will be small and any frost will be slight. Monday will be a fair day with some sunshine but feeling cooler than of late. A cool day for Tuesday with an east wind which will feed in some light showers later. Another cool, fair day for Wednesday. Cloudier for Thursday with the likelihood of some light showery rain later in the afternoon. Some sunshine for Friday and temperatures will recover a bit. Cloudy and dry for Saturday. Not too bad for Sunday but late Sunday overnight some heavier rain will spread up from the south. Cool and unsettled for next week.

Latest webcam image looking west across the River Nore:

How is this month shaping up?

• The mean temperature are a little below normal for the first two weeks.

• Rainfall is over twice the normal.

Official Temperature and Rainfall Readings for Kilkenny

November 2018

1st to 7th

1st to 14th

1st to 21st

1st to End

Month Highest

Month Lowest

Mean Air Temp. (in ° C)

7.5

7.3

14.8 on 15th

-4.2 on 2nd

Departure from 1981-2010

-1.1

-0.7

-

-

Rainfall (in mm)

47.5

80.3

25.2 on4th

-

Percent of normal 1981-2010

248

209

-

-

Mean Soil Temperatures, recorded at 09:00 UTC each morning :

5cm Depth

7.7

7.2

-

-

10cm Depth

8.3

7.9

-

-

20cm Depth

9.3

9.0

-

-

Mean Earth Temperatures, recorded at 09:00 UTC each morning :

30cm Depth

10.2

10.0

-

-

60cm Depth

10.6

10.5

-

-

120cm Depth

11.7

11.5

-

-

Extremes of Air Temperature so far this year :

30.3 on Jun 28th

-5.5 on Mar 1st

Total Rainfall so far this year :

691.7mm

93% of normal

Wettest days of the year so far :

25.2mm

on Nov 4th

23.0mm

on July 27th

Note : The data shown in the table above is the official climate data submitted to Met Eireann (Climate Station No. 456). The temperatures are from calibrated liquid-in-glass thermometers and rainfall is from a standard 5" copper gauge. The temperatures are not calculated/based on a 00-24 hour day. For the minimum temperatures, the month begins at 9 UTC on the last day of the preceding month and ends at 9 UTC on the last day of the month. For the maximum temperatures and rainfall readings, the month is taken as beginning at 9 UTC on the 1st and ending at 9 UTC on the 1st of the next month.